Sanitary device



W. H. LLOYD SANITARY DEVICE June 11, 1929.

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(i MW June 11, 1929. w. H. LLOYD SANITARY DEVICE Filed Jui 28, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 *UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. LLOYD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SANITARY DEVICE.

Application filed July 28,

The present invention relates "to water closets and like structures and has reference more particularly to the means for supporting the bowl or hopper and for connecting it to a soil pipe.

Among the objects of the invention areto construct a water closet or similar sanitary device with supporting and connecting meansv which will impose no stress upon the partition or wall through which the connection from the bowl or hopper to the soil pipe passes; which will impart its weight mainly to the floor, and through thrust bolts remote from the center of the outlet of the bowl; which will be aided in its supporting effect by the soil pipe; which will impart an upward stress upon the soil pipe, rather than a downward stress; which will have a cantilever efiect in sustaining the weight of the hopper and the user thereon; which will provide against the back flow or flush into the connection between the hopper and the soil pipe of materials passing downwardly through the soil pipe from laterally or higher located water closets or like devices; which will effect a downward direction of flow or movement of materials into the soil pipe when the closet is being flushed; which avoids the use of baffles or the like in the soil pipe between connections thereto from closets arranged back to back without the danger of the flushed materials from one hopper being projected into the connection of the opposite hopper or the lat ter itself; which provides for a novel packing means between the hopper and the connecting conduit to the. soil pipe; which may be assembled, with the possible exception of the parts efiectinga downward deflecting of the flushed materials into the soil pipe, from standard partsor fittings in stock; and which provides for such other objects, advantages and capabilities as will later appear and are inherently possessed by the invention.

Referring to the drawings illustrating the invention in application to water closet bowls or hoppers, Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the invention with the partition or wall omitted; Fig. 2 is a side view in elevation of the same with the partition in section; Fig. 3 is a front view of the soil pipe and connecting flush conduit with the hopper and partition omitted; Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view taken on line H of Fig. 1, and Fig.

1923. Serial N0. 654,341.

5 is a side view in elevation of the invention applied to a back-to-back arrangement of closets connected to a single or the same soil pipe.

Referring now more in detail to the drawings, the invention is shown as comprising a bowl or hopper 1, connected to a soil pipe 2 by means of a conduit, which comprises a thimble '3, threaded at one end to be connected with a laterally extending elbow arm 4: of the soil pipe, and provided at its other end with an enlargement 5 to which is threaded a nipple 6, having its other end suitably connected with packing to the bowl 1. The discharge end of the bowl has a flange portion 7, having a flat face 8 in which is formed an annular groove or channel 9 for the reception of packing 10. When the bowl is connected in place, the end 11 of the nipple 6 is pressed into the acking 10 so as to form a liquid tight joint etween the bowl and the nipple6. The flat end 8 is intended tobe located adjacent to, but preferably out of contact with a partition or wall 12, forming a side wall of the room, in which the hopper or bowl is to be located. The wall 12 is provided with a suitable opening 1.3. of sufiicient size to permit the passageof parts connected between the hopper land the soil pipe. The soil pipe may, depending upon the layout of the drainage system, comprise standard fittings, and if desired, may be disposed in any inclined position, as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, or may extend vertically upward and be connected to a ventilator conduit 14: which may extend to the roof of the building. The conduit 14 may also, when water closets are located on upper floors, constitute the discharge conduit therefrom.

' The thimble 3 is provided with an enlargement 5 with which is preferably formed integral lugs 15, 16 and 17. At the other end of the thimble 3 an interior portion thereof is downwardly inclined to form a deflector 18, whereby when the materials are forced or flushed through the conduit toward the soil pipe, the deflector 18 will act to downwardly direct or deflect the flushed materials, and cause a vacuum, so that the same will not be thrown to the opposite side of the soil pipe. This is of advantage in a structure such as is shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, where hoppers are connected to a single soil pipe at opposite sides thereof. It will be seen that if one of the hoppers were flushed, without use of this deflector, that some of the materials would pass laterally into the connection to the other hopper, as is clear from the figure shown in Fig. 5 of the drawing.

To the lugs 15 are threaded thrust pins or bolts 19, such bolts having thrust heads 20 intended to have abutting engagement with a fiat portion of the face 8 of the hopper 1.

Likewise, the lug 17 below the center 01 the bowl outlet, also has threaded therein a thrust bolt or pin 21, also below the center oi the bowl outlet, also provided with a head 22, designed to be in abutting engagement with the flat end 8 of the hopper, below the center of the outlet of the bowl. To the lugs 16 are suitably threaded tie bolts 23, which or;- tend through suitable apertures formed in bosses 25 forming integral parts of the hopper 1, and threaded to receive nut 26 whereby the hopper may be securely connected to the enlargement or the lugs thereof, as clearly shown in the drawings. It will be noted that the only means tying the hopper l to the support is by means of the tie bolts 23. The weight of the bowl, and the user when sitting thereon, is sustained by a tension stress acting along the tie bolts 23, below the center of the outlet of the bowl, and a thrust acting in the opposite direction along the thrust pin 21, to relieve pressure on the wall or partition. The latter may be adjusted to suit the distance the hopper is located from the enlargement or lugs thereof. To the lug 17 is also connected, preferably threaded, a leg 27 which rests at its lower end upon a floor 28, the lower end of the leg 2'? being suitably threaded to a floor flange 29. All of these parts being standard material in stock. The upper thrust members or pins 19 are provided for taking up thrust stresses when any force is applied to the hopper 1 in an upward direction, which is not usual, but frequently occurs under peculiar conditions, and may serve as connecting the seat posts to the upward projected back flange integral with the closet bowl.

It will be noted by the above construction for supporting the hopper, the conduit together with supporting legs 27 and the tie rods together with the thrust pins act as aunitary cantilever system for efi iciently supporting the hopper without imposing any stresses upon the partition or wall 12, nor any tortional eiifect upon the soil pipe. The soil pipe acts as an anchor for the other end of the cantilever system, and the stress imposed upon the soilpipe is in an upward direction, rather than a downward direction, as is usual.

While I have herein described and shown upon the drawings a few embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular construction, details and arrangement of parts shown and described, but that other constructions, details and arrangement of parts are comprehended by the invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having now described my invention,

I claim 1. In a water closet, the combination with a bowl provided with a discharge opening surrounded by a flat surface, of a thimble having one end constructed for connection with a soil pipe, a nipple connecting the discharge opening of said bowl with the other end of said thimble, so that the thimble serves as a part of the conduit from the bowl to the soil pipe, tie bolts connecting said bowl directly to integral portions of said thimble and thrust members directly engaging integral portions of said thimble in positions respectively above and below the center of the bowl outlet, said members having adjustably mounted heads bearing against the flat surface of said bowl.

2. In a water closet, the combination with a bowl provided with a discharge opening surrounded by a flat surface, of a, thimble having one end constructed for connection with a soil pipe, a nipple connecting the discharge opening of said bowl with the other end of said thimble so that the thimble serves as a part of the conduit from the bowl to the soil pipe, tie bolts directly connecting said bowl with integral portions of said thimble, said tie bolts being positioned in the same horizontal plane as the center of said thin'ible, and thrust members supported by said thimble in positions respectively above and below the plane of said tie bolts, said thrust m-en'ibers having their outer ends bearing againts the said flat surface of the bowl.

3. In a Water closet, the combinationwith a bowl provided with a discharge opening surrounded by a fiat surface, of a thimble having one'end constructed for connection with a soil pipe, said thimble being provided with a plurality of radially disposed integral lugs, a nipple connecting the discharge opening of said bowl with the other end of said thimble, so that the thimble serves as a part of the con duit from the bowl tothe soil pipe, tie bolts connecting said bowl with certain of the lugs of said thimble, and thrust members sup ported by other lugs of said thimble and positioned respectively above and below the center of the bowl outlet, said thrust members having their outer ends bearing against the said flat surface-of the bowl.

4. In a water closet, the combination with a bowl provided with a discharge opening surrounded by a flat surface, of a thimble haviug one end constructed for connection with a soil pipe, said thimble being provided with a plurality of radially disposed. integral lugs, a nipple connecting the discharge outlet of said bowl with the other end of said thimble so that the thimble serves as a part of the conduit from the bo-wl to the soil pipe, tie

bolts directly connecting said bowl with ceradjustably supported by said thrust members tain of said lugs, said tie bolts being located and bearing against the said flat surface of on opposite sides of said conduit in the same the bowl, and a supporting standard engag- 1 horizontal plane as the axis of the thimble, ing one of the lugs of said thimble.

5 thrust members carried by other lugs of said In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe thimble in positions respectively above and my name to this specification. below the plane of said tie bolts, thrust heads WILLIAM H. LLOYD. 

